Health

Nigeria Governors Meet Thursday Over Distribution of Covid Vaccines

The governors of Nigeria’s 36 states of the federation will on Thursday meet to discuss modalities for the distribution of…

4 years ago

IOC Aims to Vaccinate as Many Tokyo Olympic Participants as Possible

A five-party meeting was held on Wednesday for the Tokyo 2020 games where the International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach…

4 years ago

Kenya Receives One Million Vaccine Doses Via COVAX Initiative

Kenya has received just over one million doses of a Covid-19 vaccine in the first batch from the global COVAX…

4 years ago

Vaccines Are Optional, No Nigerian Will Be Mandated to Take One, Says Deputy Health Minister Mamora

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4 years ago

Quality Assurance Key in Successful Covid-19 Vaccination, Former Disease Control Boss Prof. Nasidi Says

The pioneer Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control Abdulsalam Nasidi has called for quality assurance in ensuring mistakes are averted when Nigerians begin…

4 years ago

India Promises Nigeria 100,000 Doses of Covid Vaccines

After taking delivery of 3.92 million doses of Covishield vaccine from the Serum Institute of India (SII) at the Nnamdi…

4 years ago

BREAKING: Nigeria Takes Delivery of 3.92m Doses of AstraZeneca Vaccines

An Emirate airline has touched down at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, the Nigerian capital with 3.92 million doses…

4 years ago

Chinese Vaccines Sweep Much of the World, Despite Western Concerns

The plane laden with vaccines had just rolled to a stop at Santiago’s airport in late January, and Chile’s president,…

4 years ago

Covid-19: Nigeria to Vaccinate 70% of Population Before 2022, SGF Mustapha Says

The Nigerian government says it plans to vaccinate 70 percent of the country's 209 million population before the end of…

4 years ago

Ghana’s President Akufo-Addo Becomes First Recipient of Covid Vaccine from COVAX

Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo has become the world's first recipient of the coronavirus vaccine from Covax, a scheme to procure and distribute…

4 years ago